We're happy to announce the March 2024 release of Payara Platform Enterprise 6.12.0 and Community 6.2024.3. This release brings a number of improvements, bug fixes, and component upgrades, delivering greater reliability for your Jakarta EE workloads.

Key Highlights

• Enhanced Configuration Flexibility: Felix, the underlying OSGi framework, gains more control in system package selection, streamlining configuration and reducing potential conflicts.
• Improved Deployment Experience: Resolved an issue where temporary files could linger after deployments, ensuring a clean and tidy environment.
• Reliable Restarts: Standalone instances now behave as expected during restarts, guaranteeing your applications stay up and running without manual intervention.
• Component Upgrades: A number of underlying components have been upgraded to their latest versions, providing the most up-to-date features, security patches, and performance boosts.

Where to Get the Updates

You can download the latest Payara Community 6.2024.3 here and get a trial of Payara Enterprise 6.12.0 here. 

You can find the full release notes for Payara Community 6.2024.3 here, and those of Payara Enterprise 6.12.0 here. 

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As always, we welcome your thoughts and experiences with these updates. Please feel free to share your feedback through the Payara community channels or directly leave a comment on this blog.

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